Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 05 – From the Grapevine… Goldsmiths in Tehran continued their strike on Tuesday.
Strike by goldsmiths continues
Graffiti in Iran capital calls for further strikes, sanctions
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 05 – From the Grapevine… Pro-democracy activists in Tehran have stepped up writing slogans and graffiti in public spots in support of general strikes and international sanctions against the regime.
Blast reported at Iranian hospital
CNN: A bomb exploded Tuesday at a hospital near Tehran, Iranian media reports said.
Ex-marine jailed over smuggling sniper sights to Iran
BBC: A former Royal Marine from Lincolnshire has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for attempting to export telescopic sniper sights to Iran.
Opposition leader seeks referendum on Ahmadinejad
AP: Iran’s opposition leader says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s foreign policies are destructive and his performance as president should be judged in a referendum.
Iran insists computer worm was Western plot
AP: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman is claiming that a computer worm found on the laptops of several employees at the country’s nuclear power plant is part of a covert Western plot to derail the Iranian atomic program.
In sign of discord, Iran blocks web sites of some clerics
New York Times: The web sites of two senior clerics have been blocked by government censors, a possible sign of a hardening political divide at the highest level of Iran’s religious establishment.
Ahmadinejad tells West to put more pressure on Iran
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged the West on Tuesday to put more pressure on Iran, which he said would fail to make any impact on the Islamic republic or its atomic programme.
Jewellers continue strike in Tehran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 04 – From the Grapevine… A strike by jewellers and goldsmiths across Tehran continued into its second week.
Iraq lifts oil reserves estimate, overtakes Iran
Bloomberg: Iraq raised its estimate of national crude oil reserves to 143.1 billion barrels, Oil Minister Hussain Al-Shahristani said today, overtaking Iran as home to the world’s fourth-largest petroleum deposits.
